Best Buy's sneaky tricks.

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Apparently professional TV calibration is a raw deal, because it appears Best Buy has to trick customers into paying for it.

To advertise calibration services, Best Buy stacked a supposedly calibrated TV on top of an identical television that wasn't calibrated. And Best Buy exaggerated the benefits of calibration by using a lower-quality component cable for the bottom television and a higher quality HDMI cable for the TV above, according to a Consumerist reader who says he spotted the trick.

"This disturbed me a bit because nowhere on the display did it mention this fact," said the tipster, in a letter to the Consumerist. "The average consumer would look at the display, see the TVs and think that the only difference between the TVs was the calibration."

This story shortly follows a consumer report from November -- also related to Best Buy's calibration services. In that incident, a customer said Best Buy put two TVs side by side -- and the "non-calibrated" TV showed a standard-definition ESPN while the other was set on the high-definition version of the channel.

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[01 S 10 10+ year member]

hahaha thats fked up

 

[wu501 10+ year member]

lol...gotta make money somehow I suppose.

 

[tc3k101 5,000+ posts]

lol

 

[Maddogg7888 10+ year member]

you can never buy a tv based on the way it looks in a store...same goes for car audio

 

[bw_audio 10+ year member]

..

 

[Motley 10+ year member]

wow

 

[strypersux 10+ year member]

haha

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

Well it does show the difference in the cables, the lying bastards could have come from that angle and sold their extremely overpriced cables instead.

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Don't even let me get started on their warranties. I believe they're still under investigaton for fraud by many states.

 

[rtillaree 10+ year member]

that's funnies...

 

[Rashaddd 5,000+ posts]

what noobs

 

[Gavriley2007 10+ year member]

best buy is pathetic

 

[PepsiFiend69 10+ year member]

gotta make that money mang.

99% of businesses lie to you face to make you buy more, that's how the world works, unfortunately

 

[lawlyes2007 10+ year member]

Different quality cables arent gonna make that big of a difference, the real problem is the "non-calibrated" tv has all of its settings jacked way the hell up. Although a professional calibration will make a difference, it may not be that substantial. But a $100 hdmi cable will perform the same as a $6 hdmi cable.